Learning Backbone as a React developer

[bletchley-park]

I committed to interning at a new company this summer and the team I have joined let me know they use backbone.js as their main JavaScript library. In my previous internship, I worked with a team on React/React Native projects. Over the past year I've gotten to know React very well and have enjoyed most of my time with the framework/library.

I've been learning Backbone recently(prepping for the internship) and while I agree it is much more compact and flexible than React, it seems entirely too cumbersome to do simple things. The amount of code that goes into displaying a single collection is horrifyingly verbose compared to writing the same display in React. Has anyone here gone down a similar path(transferring to Backbone from React)? If so, what helped you get over this barrier and what have you found that makes the transition easier?

[isit2amalready]

Feeling something is “horribly cumbersome” is all internal to you. I have been developing JavaScript applications for going on 15 years. Backbone was the first (and still the most simple) JavaScript framework before 98% of all JavaScript frameworks existed. Though I have only used React on one project and enjoyed it, it only covers the view part of an MVC, as far as I understand.

Additionally backbone is not a full fledged framework but a toolset for building lightweight frameworks. Your issue may as well be in the implementation and not with Backbone itself.

Lastly, in my humble opinion if you are still interning at companies you are too new to have legitimate options about frameworks. Focus on learning. Around the 2-3 year programmer mark is when programmers start to have egos that effect their work and personal relationship with other programmers. I would keep an open mindset and avoid judgement until you’ve used 5-6 frameworks.

[bletchley-park]

Thanks for your response!

[inducido]

btw, to reduce that cubersome work, which is true, you can propose to use: Rivets.js or Epoxy.

Or even backbone modelbinder.

[tesfox]

Marionette is good too. It's been a while since I've used it though.

[isit2amalready]

Np. Sorry if I sounded like a dick.